As a research group, our core values address the latest challenges facing society today.

The needs of people with skin disease continue to be at the heart of everything that we do; building on our track record of working together with members of the public to address shared priorities. We also focus on reducing health inequalities, particularly in relation to challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of people with dark skin tones.

We are proud to be independent of commercial influence and make our resources freely available. Our research is largely supported through research grants from the National Institute for Health and Social Care Research (NIHR), for which we are very grateful. More widely, we are committed to demonstrating good citizenship within the dermatology community by training and supporting others, generating new knowledge by collaborating rather than competing, reducing research waste and being mindful of our research carbon footprint.